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Cute and imaginative book about geometry and romance. Unfortunately it contradicts real life. Entropy rules the universe. All straight lines will become squiggles.
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First, understand that story takes only a couple of minutes to read; it's mostly illustrations. Two things about that: 1) do you need to own it? Or would looking at the library's copy for 5 minutes suffice? Personally, I regret this purchase and consider it a waste of money. 2) A quick illustrated book for adults is typically a light-hearted gift.
So, let's think about it as a gift: [SPOILERS] A line falls in love with a circle, but she is in love with a squiggle. Then, the line learns to make interesting new shapes, and as a result he wins over the circle, who now regards the squiggle as chopped liver. Seriously, do you like that message? Basically, it's saying: the circle -- clearly the female -- is going to run off with the guy with the most expensive car / most bling / whatever, and has no substance (this is almost directly stated in the book). This is the sort of thing that, on the surface, would be a cute romantic gift. But, when you actually look at the message, it's, ummmm, well..
Again: I'm clearly the minority on this one and that must mean something, but I found it negative and dated. My purchase was inspired by my enjoyment of Flatland, a much older book with mathematical characters but one with a healthier message.
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A classmate sent me this book after I graduated from college in 1971. It was a neat and unusual book at that time and is still an interesting illustrated story. I parted company with the gifted book with a divorce in 1984 and was amazed to see this book come up as a suggestion for me on Amazon. Of course I had to buy it! If you like unusual picture books be sure and get this one.
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What a gem of a book. Grab it while there are still some around. I often give the book as a gift and constantly get rave reviews and hearty thanks. Only a few words but with magnificent graphics.
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The phrase is the turning point and premise of this amazing, simply delightful little Math book. Math? That is our son's most disliked subject. Wait, The Dot and the Line is not a Math book! It is a hilarious comedy! But is that all? It is a romance, a story of love deeply felt, pursued, capable of provoking great things in the soul. In a little math book? Is it possible? Yes, it is.
Our Classic Languages-loving son reads it aloud every time this book visits us from the library. (Readers, please remind me to purchase a copy for his next birthday). He suffers with the straight, dull and unbending line when driven to the "edge" (of the paper-- the line is drawn on the edge of the page) as the "perfect by every measure" dot flirts around with the anarchist, slothful squiggle. Moved by great love, the line at first attempts to show its own grandeur by asserting its importance in art, world politics, sports. To no avail: the dot is not impressed. Then the unimaginable happens: when almost giving up, the line, using great concentration, becomes able to make angles!
What follows next is what makes this little book a great book: the enthusiastic line makes more and more angles in a chaotic frenzy, until... it realizes that chaos without order leads nowhere. It stops, straightens itself again and it discovers that freedom is not a license for chaos. From then on, life changes for the line: exercising great control and virtue, it discovers a new world: For months he practiced in secret. Soon he was making squares and triangles, hexagons, parallelograms, rhomboids, polyhedrons, trapezoids, parallelepiped, decagons, tetragrams and an infinite number of other shapes so complex that he had to letter his sides and angles to keep his place.Read more ›
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